H is for Hawk /
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Grove Press,
2014.
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| Summary: | "As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel ... on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals"--Dust jacket of a previous printing. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014. |
| Physical Description: | 300 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0802123414 9780802123411 |